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by xxqs 15y ago
it probably makes sense to sell the basic feature at low cost, but not completely free. People spend easily up to $10 without too much thinking.
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by xxqs 15y ago
this will simply push the use of encrypted tunnels to a new level. It's already a commodity service in China.
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by xxqs 15y ago
but then you cut off all incompatible browsers, which are many. besides, lightweight servers like ngix or lighttpd are quite efficient in delivering small files
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by xxqs 15y ago
nope :) I mean, what's the benefit of having your graphics in CSS? It's supposed to be defining your page styling, not the content
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by xxqs 15y ago
http://thenounproject.com/ offers much more and with a CC license
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by xxqs 15y ago
I have 3 VPS'es rented for various projects. Also a Synology NAS at home (it switches off and on automatically at a daily schedule), used mostly as a backup storage. I use GoodSync to synchronize my Documents folder with the NAS, and the NA
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by xxqs 15y ago
... and it will pollute HN's topic flow even more :)
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by xxqs 15y ago
if you start posting at G+, feel free to add me, will be glad to share thoughts.
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by xxqs 15y ago
why not publishing them in a personal blog and sending links in various social platforms, like HN or google+? although with HN, lots of topics remain neglected, especially if they appear in non-US daytime
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by xxqs 15y ago
the rule of thumb is quite simple: if you're in a project where your work is intended for a mixed enterprise environment, with parts of non-opensource code integrated with your work, then choose MIT or Apache license. Otherwise, GPL works f
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by xxqs 15y ago
also it opens door for network computing, as buying 10 of them is not such a big deal any more
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by xxqs 15y ago
yes, for students it's definitely a good motivation. also it's easier to experiment with a device which is not too tragic to break
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by xxqs 15y ago
jobserve.com, especially for Europe. Quite popular resource among freelancers and contractors
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by xxqs 15y ago
well, one can learn a lot of things if he or she is motivated enough: * Building a bootloader from sources. Trying various boot media sources and ways to launch your code in the raw memory. Probably even some assembler stuff. * Learning how
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by xxqs 15y ago
half the world uses the word "xerox" for a copy machine, "pampers" for diapers, and "jeep" for an offroader. So, google as verb is now completely natural
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by xxqs 15y ago
Consulting: network technologies and software development Degree: applied maths. That's not exactly Computer Science, as CS was not taught well in Russia back then.
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by xxqs 15y ago
nobody will understand it in the search context :) everyone knows how to google, and nobody knows how to duck
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by xxqs 15y ago
After about 12 years in the industry, I started my own consulting company. Does it count as a startup? I'm working mostly alone, and sometimes teaming up with other freelancers. Got a University degree, and happy about that. It taught me to
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New age telephony is here, yet undervalued(txlab.wordpress.com)
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by xxqs 15y ago
also you can't use it as a verb. Google this, google that. You can easily duckduckgo my contacts... nah, doesn't sound right :)
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by xxqs 15y ago
quite interesting, and I hope the user experience will improve with time. At the moment, my wife, a totally nontechnical person, had a very negative feedback after she had to use a most fresh Ubuntu netbook instead of the oldy gnome desktop
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by xxqs 15y ago
git, of course. here I summarized some points which I needed to explain to my customers: http://txlab.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/moving-from-subversion...
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by xxqs 15y ago
> You think a lot of supercomputers are going to be running Web-targeted NoSQL datastores? if they succeed in building a powerful architecture which beats Intel in performance per kilowatt, they will start selling commodity servers with
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by xxqs 15y ago
ok, details on the criticism: 1. Look at their BSON format specification: http://bsonspec.org/#/specification They name it a new "standard", and at the same time they have things like "\x11" -> Timestamp, a special internal MongoDB da
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by xxqs 15y ago
a thoughtful software designer would build an endian-neutral and memory-aligned architecture in the first place. In case of Mongo, the designers don't seem to really understand how the computer hardware operates on the low level. for the re
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by xxqs 15y ago
I guess some other team will eventually spin off an alternative server engine, still keeping the API compatibility, but improving or re-designing the poor parts. Let's wait another year or two. Pity is that as an application developer, I ca
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by xxqs 15y ago
> Since you provide no data or sources for "criticized a lot" there have been tons of discussions, also on HN, very easy to google
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by xxqs 15y ago
actually the number of ARM processors is growing, and not only in the mobile sector. There have been some efforts to bring ARM architecture into the server market. Also China is building its own MIPS-based supercomputer. Also the SPARC arch
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by xxqs 15y ago
> Maybe that's only a problem for people on non-x86 CPUs then? actually it's a problem for application developers. I cannot rely on a backend system with limitations like these. So I'll have to go back to the RDBMS backend or look for o
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by xxqs 15y ago
Great to see the entry cost of an embedded linux development kit dropping from over $500 few years ago, down to the price of a pizza or two. This means we're going to see more young talented developers with actual embedded system skills.

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